Glenn Reynolds and Harvey the Invisible Nascent Political Force

So. After all of the shouting, all of the demonstrating, all of the excruciating  sexual tension, how many people attended today’s Tea Parties? According to Nate Silver, who is so good with numbers they’re going to name one after him (five, six, seven, nate, nine…), we’re talking 111, 899. Adds Nate:

Are these figures impressive? I’d say they’re reasonably impressive. Then again, 111,899 isn’t much more than the number who attend a typical University of Michigan football game or who attended a single Barack Obama rally in Portland, Oregon last year.

And remember, Michigan sucked this year. I mean, they lost to fucking Notre Dame fer Touchdown Jesus’ sake…

But anyway…

We could talk about the 306,113,948 Americans who didn’t show up because they were
a) working
b) rinsing out a few things/washing their hair/visiting their mother/having really bad cramps
or
c) sane
….but we should probably deal with the much smaller number who came in search of catharsis and maybe a chance to glimpse John Ratzenberger (Norm! No…wait.. Cliff? Fuck. Well, let’s go get a funnel cake….). It would seem that there was a small problem with message discipline and so we got a heaping helping of neo-nazis, birthers, bitters, gun nuts, racists, secessionists, and those who would point out that proper spelling is not mandated in the Constitution so suck it liebrals!!1! 

There also seemed to be a lot of what we call "elderly people" attending, probably taunting the other teabaggers with their Social Security and Medicare benefits as an act of social aggression since they suck at "bum fights". Trust me, I know. One punch and it’s game over man. Lights out. Bitch is down and ain’t getting up.

Lastly there were the children, lots of them it seems of the home-schooled variety who someday will tell the story of how they were at the Great Tax Protests of ’09 when home-school teachermommy teabagged the president. I’m sure their friends, if any of them ever have any, will be impressed….

Is there anyone I didn’t offend with this post?  Cool.